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TENT.

APPLIGATION FILED DEC. 2, 1912.

Patented Dec. 16, 1913.

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WILLIAM H. RICI-ILING, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOB. TO THE E.WENZEL TENT & DUCK (30., OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OFMISSOURI.

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Application filed December 2, 1912.

T 0 (ZZZ whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. RIGIL LING,a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tents, of which thefollowing is a specification containing a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accom panying drawings, forminga part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in tents, and the object of myinvention is to construct a tent of the type having an attached flexibleridge member, and to provide therefor a novel pole and ridgestraightening and leveling means, the entire tent including the polesand ridge straightening means capable of being folded to occupy aminimum of space.

With the above purposes in view my in vention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinaftermore fully described, pointed out in the claims and illustrated by theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows an ordinary A or walltent partly in section with certain parts removed, and illustrates myimproved pole and ridge straightening means; Fig. 2 shows in plan aportion of a tent and one of the ridge straightening devices; Fig. 3 isa plan of one of the pole base blocks; Fig. 4 is a sectional elevationillustrating a portion of a pole and one of the base blocks; Fig. 5 is aplan illustrating a portion of the tent and the connection between theridge rope, the end guy rope and the pole pin; Fig. 6 is an enlargedsectional elevation illustrating one of the rings carried by the ridgerope; and Fig. 7 is an enlarged transverse sectional elevationillustrating the manner of securing the ridge rope to the tent proper.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings: 8 designates thetent proper which is of ordinary construction and of any type having astraight ridge portion.

Secured in the ridge portion of the tent body in an ordinary manner is aridge rope 9 having at each of its ends a loop 10, and formed throughthe tent body coinciding with said loops are the openings 11.Intermediate the ends of said ridge rope the rings 12 are secured to therope by stitching, as shown in Fig. 6, there being openings 13 in theridge portion of the tent through which said rings extend.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 16, 1913.

Serial No. 734,590.

The tent poles are each made up of three.

tubular sections 14, 15 and 16 of graduate sizes, as shown, the upperends of the sections 14 and 15 each being provided with annular inwardlyprojecting rings 17, preferably formed by depressing the tube in orderto form stops for the lowermost ends of the sections 15- and 16 andwhich tele scope in the upper ends of the sections 14 and 15.

18 designates a base block for the lowermost end of the lower section 14which is preferably made of wood and provided with a circular depression19 arranged to receive the lowermost end of the tent pole.

2O designates the tent pin which is preferably cast complete in onepiece and has an annular rim 21 to limit the distance it may be insertedin the top of the tent pole. At its upper end the pin is perforated toreceive the pivot 22 which is arranged to support a working-beam 28.

24 designates a rope which is connected at its one end to the workingbeam 23 and at its other end to one of the rings 12 carried by the ridgerope.

25 designates an eye which is secured to the base block 18 and arrangedto secure a tackle block 26.

Embracing the tackle block 26 is a rope 27 having its one end secured tothe working-beam opposite the end of the beam to which the rope 24 isconnected, and the other end of the rope 27 is secured to a block 28which is of ordinary construction and is ar ranged to hold the rope asit is drawn through the tackle block.

The tent body is equipped with the ordinary wall guys (not shown) andthe end guys 29, the upper ends of which are secured through the loops10 of the ridge rope.

The pitching or setting up of the tent is accomplished in an ordinarymanner, and when pitched the ridge line may be altered to straighten orlevel it by drawing downwardly on the rope 27 which elevates or drawsupwardly on the rope 24, which in turn draws upwardly on the ridge ropeintermediate its ends. For the reason that the downward pull on the rope27 is substantially vertical the guys of the tent are not interferedwith and there is no tendency of loosening any of the guys of the tent.

I claim:

1. In combination with a tent body havmg a ridge rope, a pole, aremovable tent pin carried by the pole, a Working-beam ful- I orumedover the tent pin, a flexible connection between said Working-beam andsaid ridge rope, and means for holding said Working-beam in differentpositions.

2. In combination With a tent body having a ridge rope, a tent pole, abase block for the tent pole, a tent 13in telescopically connected withthe uppermost end of the pole,

,a Working-beam fulcrumed to said tent pin a flexible connection betweensaid workingbeam and the ridge rope, and a rope and tackle connectionbetween the Working-beam and said base block.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inpresence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM H. RICHLING.

Witnesses:

E. L. WALLACE, N. G. BUTLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Eatents, Washington, D. C.

